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11/18/2016 6:00AM

Donald Trump's Long List for Secretary of State

As Donald Trump considers candidates for his cabinet, filling the post of secretary of state has been the subject of heated speculation. WSJ's Gerald F. Seib discusses the list and what the choice could means for the incoming president. Photo: AP

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... the transition to the top administration like all presidential transitions has moved into that inevitable phase in which is producing a parlor game in Washington which everybody's engaging in wild speculation that who's going to get which job when President from takes office ... most interesting speculation actually is about vision of the Secretary of State ... it looked initially is not still may be that Rudy Giuliani the former mayor of New York in a ... real ally of Donald Trump's drop presidential campaign was going to get the job had the inside track ... but for the last couple days is a lot of speculation about other names ... and the speculation is interesting because of the categories of people who are being discussed some are very conventional Senator Bob Corker who's the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee General David traders who also was head of this EIA they have the kind of normal foreign relations national security back Renzi you'd expect to see in a potential Secretary of state ... than there some outfit candidates like John Bolton on national security expert but who is much more hawkish ... than Donald Trump has been he was a big champion of the war in Iraq Donald Thompson is a huge mistake of fiction wonder how that can work if you were picked a secretary of state ... and then there is some strange names that are floating out there ... Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina visited Donald Trump this week she's being discussed as well as their Romney who's going to see Mr Trump ... and who's now all the sudden being speculative as potential Secretary of State now ... it's hard to know what speculation is real what people are making up in one image is being floated ... because it helps satisfy certain constituencies out there but I do think in the end this means that when the choices Fannie Mae perhaps next week ... for Secretary of State ... it's gonna be one of the more interesting announcements ...